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After giving Council of Economic Advisers Chair N. Gregory Mankiw a noogie for favoring exporting American jobs, George Bush will add a new disincentive: Next time, it’s Twister with Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz...
...your kids already have every SpongeBob DVD and game and still want more, the Nickelodeon Toon Twister 3-D from Scholastic ($20; Windows only) should keep them busy--at least for a while. The software helps you direct your own cartoon. First you pick characters, props and scenes from a list of more than 100not from just SpongeBob but from The Fairly OddParents, Jimmy Neutron and Rugrats too. Once you have selected actors, you click and drag them through motions, giving them actions (dance, throw a tantrum) or lines (funny quotes from the shows or even your own words...
Meehan wrote dozens of parodies, short stories and other humor pieces for the New Yorker. One of the more famous was a 1962 short story, "Yma Dream," a frequently anthologized tale of a strange cocktail party whose guests bear tongue-twister names. He adapted it as a sketch for Anne Bancroft's 1970 television special, Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man, which not only won him an Emmy but also introduced him to both its director and producer, Martin Charnin, who later offered him his first Broadway show, and his future writing partner, Bancroft's husband...
Remember Fahrvergnugen, the German tongue twister that Volkswagen adopted for ad campaigns in the early 1990s to express the thrill of driving its cheap, dependable, even lovable cars? For VW owner Ann Jones of Corona, Calif., the experience has been more like far from groovin'. Jones was lured to the Jetta by its stylish looks, elegant interior and solid road handling, which made it seem worth the $18,900 price. But a few months after bringing her new sedan home in 2000, she returned it to the dealer because of an oil leak...
...everyone has been sensing the awkwardness of the morning ride up, it is confirmed by the frenzied exit. Road rage meets Twister: mangled, yet relieved, everyone manages to break through...